The Materials Research Society holds “Science as Art” competitions at their big meetings. Researchers enter unusual and striking images of their nanoscale lab creations. The Society have a slew of the entries posted to their Web site for use as screensavers or desktop wallpaper. Discover’s Aaron Rowe grabbed some of them to create a slideshow quiz. For example:
This tiny rose (above) was made by mixing an exotic element with hydrazoic acid. That element was discovered in Germany, is a soft and silvery metal with a low melting point, and was used to lubricate the bearings of aircraft during World War II. What is it?
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